Fulgora
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Space Age expansion exclusive feature.
Fulgora is a new barren desert planet. Its surface is split between island-like plateaus, and deep oilsands. During the night, the planet is ravaged by lightning storms, damaging buildings.
Planet discovery Fulgora (research) is required to travel to the planet.
Exclusive Items
The following items are unlocked on Fulgora and can only be crafted on-planet:
The following items are unlocked on Fulgora but can be crafted elsewhere:
- Mech armor
- Personal battery MK3
- Energy shield MK2
- Personal roboport MK2
- Quality module 3
- Tesla turret
Surface
Properties
| Property | Value |
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| Pollutant Type | None |
| Day Night Cycle | 3 Minutes |
| Magnetic Field | 99 |
| Solar Power | 20% |
| Pressure | 800 |
| Gravity | 8 |
Biomes
Fulgora is split between two distinct biomes.
- Plateaus are islands dotted around the landscape. They are the only biome where factories can be built. Some plateaus are home to alien ruins, which have fulgoran lightning attractors, which can protect your buildings until unlocking your own lightning rods. Other plateaus hold scrap, Fulgora's sole resource.
- Oilsands are the lowlands between the plateaus. No buildings can be built in them except for rail supports. You can walk through them, but occasional oilpatches will slow you to a crawl. An offshore pump can be placed on the edge of oilsands to produce an unlimited amount of heavy oil.
Terrain
Fulgoran terrain is mainly composed of oillands, on which nothing except for rail supports can be built. Traversal by foot across the oillands is possible, but slow. The oillands are further divided into deep and shallow areas, with deep areas slowing down player movement even further and not even allowing for rail supports to be built until rail support foundations (research) is researched.
However, the oillands are also scattered with islands of various sizes, on which normal construction is possible. At first, these are the only place on Fulgora where factories can be built, as foundation for building on top of the oillands requires research that can not be performed until much later.
The islands come in three size classes:
- Small islands with high amounts of resources, but with little room to build on
- Medium islands with lower amounts of resources, and with sufficient room for a small factory
- Large islands with no resources, but with enough room to build the main part of a medium-sized factory
It is possible for two or more islands to overlap, potentially creating an even larger island that does have local resources. However, most islands are detached, meaning that transport between islands will have to occur by train. In many cases, the distance between two islands is also too vast for roboports or big electric poles to reach, thus requiring local logistic and electric networks to be built, as neither roboports nor power poles can be built on the oillands without foundation.
Islands are also scattered with fulgorite, fulgoran lightning attractors, fulgoran ruins and fulgoran vault ruins, allowing players without the recycler to get access to basic resources.
Mechanics
Lightning
During nighttime, dense thunderstorms occur on Fulgora, with frequent lightning strikes occurring across the surface. Lightning will strike each chunk once, every 10 seconds or so ( lightnings_per_chunk_per_tick = 1 / (60 * 10), --cca once per chunk every 10 seconds (600 ticks) )
If a lightning strike is set to occur near a lightning rod, lightning collector, or fulgoran lightning attractor, then the lightning will always hit said entity, rendering the lightning harmless. However, if such an entity can not be found, the lightning will strike where it occurs, causing damage to nearby entities.
Lightning will prefer striking the entity with the highest priority, choosing randomly between entities tied for highest priority.
| Entity | Priority Value |
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10,000 |
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1,000 |
| Fulgoran lightning attractor | ? |
| Fulgoran vault ruin | 95 |
| Colossal Fulgoran ruin | 94 |
| Huge Fulgoran ruin | 93 |
| Big Fulgoran ruin | 92 |
| Medium Fulgoran ruin | 91 |
| Entities | Category |
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| Anything with the "Metal" impact soundset/category? | |
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Pipes & Pumps |
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Electric Poles |
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Electric Routing |
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Recyclers and Assemblers |
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Beacons |
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Radars |
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Roboports & Bots |
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Inserters (but not bulk/stack inserters) |
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Metal Chests (Notably not wooden chests) |
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Landed Cargo pods |
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Metal Furnaces |
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Heat exchangers and pipes |
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Fusion Power |
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Cars & Tanks |
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Train stops |
Electric energy interface   |
Some Modded Situations |
| Entities | Category |
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Legacy rail    |
Rail Pieces |
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Rail Signals (Notably not Train stops) |
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Trains |
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Walls and Mines |
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Trees & entities that count as a rock for filtered destruction |
Lightning rods and collectors
Lightning rods and lightning collectors serve a secondary function beyond protecting an area from lightning strikes. They convert lightning into stored power, which they quickly discharge into the local electric system. With enough accumulators to last during daytime or between lightning strikes, this can serve as the factory's main power source.
With this, lightning on Fulgora become both a curse and a blessing: Players must keep their factory covered by lightning rods or collectors to avoid damage, and nighttime exploration becomes dangerous and risky. However, to an established base, lightning become a convenient source of electric energy, which is especially important given the weak solar output on Fulgora's surface and the difficulty of setting up a global electric network on Fulgora before foundation becomes available.
Natural resources
Aside from numerous items that can be collected by mining ancient ruins, only two "natural" resources occur on Fulgora, those being heavy oil and scrap.
Heavy oil can be obtained in infinite and non-diminishing amounts by placing an offshore pump on the shore of an island, allowing it to collect heavy oil directly from the oillands.
Scrap is found in deposits on small and medium sized islands, as if it were an ore. However, in stark contrast to most other natural resources, scrap is not directly processed into a single basic resource like iron or copper plates using traditional production methods. Rather, it is recycled to produce a variety of items:
- Ice
- Stone
- Holmium ore
- Concrete
- Solid fuel
- Steel plate
- Copper cable
- Iron gear wheel
- Battery
- Advanced circuit
- Processing unit
- Low density structure
Since this list includes intermediate products, such as processing units, but no iron or copper plates, players are often forced to further recycle many of these items in order to obtain their ingredients. Players are thus left with the decision of what items to recycle, all while having to avoid cluttering their belts with unused resources.
Access to basic resources
- Water can be obtained from Ice (from recycling Scrap) via Ice melting
- Stone can be obtained by recycling Scrap
- Iron ore can be obtained by recycling Concrete
- Iron plate can be obtained by recycling Iron gear wheel, Battery, or Electronic circuit
- Copper plate can be obtained by recycling Copper cable, Battery, or Low density structure
- Coal cannot be obtained and must be shipped in from other planets. However:
- Plastic bar can be obtained by recycling Advanced circuit or Low density structure
- There are no enemies on-planet, so Explosive-based ammunition or grenades are not needed
- Crude oil is not available, but Heavy oil is readily available using offshore pumps
- Copper ore is not available as the only recipe it is used in is copper plates and smelting processes cannot be reversed
Space routes
Fulgora is connected to 3 other planets: Nauvis, Gleba, and Aquilo.
| Planet | Distance (km) |
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| Nauvis | 15,000 |
| Gleba | 15,000 |
| Aquilo | 30,000 |
Asteroid rate graphs:
 Space route from Nauvis to Fulgora |
 Space route from Gleba to Fulgora |
 Space route from Fulgora to Aquilo |
Graph legend:
| Asteroid type | Chunk | Medium | Big |
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 Metallic |
● Blue | ● Red | ● Cyan |
 Carbonic |
● Orange | ● Yellow | ● Brown |
 Oxide |
● Green | ● Magenta | ● Purple |
Orbit
Properties
| Property | Value |
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| Solar Power | 120% |
| Asteroid Type | Spawn Ratio |
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| Metallic asteroid chunk | 4 |
| Carbonic asteroid chunk | 3 |
| Oxide asteroid chunk | 1 |
| Promethium asteroid chunk | 0 |
| Asteroid Size | Spawn % |
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| Chunk | .25 |
| Medium | .25 |
| Big | 0 |
| Huge | 0 |
Note:
- Chunks spawn at Nauvis at 1.25%
- Huge Asteroids only spawn past Aquilo
Gallery
Example landscape of Fulgora.
Trivia
- The planet's ruins suggest that an unknown civilization once existed there before the game's events.
- In mythology, Fulgora is the Roman personification of lightning, and a shieldmaiden to the god of thunder, Jupiter.
- The planet is based on real-world desert planets.
History
See also
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